alright at this point we are ENTIRELY at “hey, my former friends hate me because i got THE PERSON WHO INTRODUCED ME TO THEM kicked out of school” and there is frankly no way that sarah could not have known what was going to happen. she had REASONS for going “I should alienate everyone i know”, yes, but she still made that choice.

So far she hasn’t seemed all that bad. I’m waiting for the big twist that will either justify Sarah jacking her in the face or maybe the reveal that Sarah is just a psychopath. Which is also cool and would explain why she’s comfortable whomping on people with a baseball bat.

Personally I think the Sarah whomp has less to do with justification or anything that was even happening in the room at the moment and more to do with the fact that Raidah’s been antagonizing Sarah for months at the point of the incident.

Everybody’s got a breaking point. Even the tamest and best-trained dog will eventually snap at you if you just keep going long enough.

Though there were probably also some irrational fears about Raidah coming to take away the only friend left on campus. Remember that she’s been actively warding people away from associating with Sarah. At first it sounded like that was an incidental part of the general antagonism but after the last encounter it looks like that’s actually an explicit goal of hers.

Your amazing ability to only look at a single strip and generalize it to all of the time period the other poster was talking about totally demolished his/her argument and proved the superiority of your reasoning skills.

Well she puts so much effort into being likable, I can’t see how people react to her the way they do. I mean, she’s judgmental and seems to ENJOY the fact she can suck the fun out of anything. BFF qualities right there.

Man…and this is her side of the story? I’d find it so refreshing if the reveal involved Sarah actually being in the wrong here. Maybe then she could lighten up on the whole bongoy killjoy misanthrope thing. I consider this unlikely since Raidah’s crew were recently shown being absolutely horrendous people…but it would be a nice twist.

There’s nothing wrong with being a bongoy killjoy misanthrope – especially since that in this context seems to mean “I’d rather study than do drugs and hang out with people.”

The thing I find interesting about this storyline so far is that Sarah found out about the drugs on day one, and did not promptly report it. That suggests that she is not a narc by nature, but will instead have to be driven to that point. I see two real ways for that to occur:

1) She comes to believe that the presence of unreported drugs in her room is suddenly a pressing threat to her – more than it was the day previously, that is.

or 2) For reasons unrelated to her own well-being she decides that Dana is too annoying to live with and needs expulsion – moreso than she did the day previously, that is.

or 3) she reveals it by total accident, or something?

Dunno about you, but to me Sarah is not the bad guy in scenario 1. Scenario 2 or 3, she might be. It remains to be see what actually plays out.

But she’s generally written as being “bitter and jaded” in all areas of life, not just in this context. That’s the issue here. I would think most people recognize that that’s not a good way to go through life. It limits the relationships you can have with others and it prevents most people from wanting to deal with a thorny exterior to reach the quality-person beneath (and I think most of us can agree that Sarah is a generally good person). This is even more important in the professional world where personality plays a strong role in hiring practices when choosing among otherwise similar candidates (and in law, there are a lot of incredibly academically-inclined people, so it would help if she could differentiate in another way).

True, it’s good that she hasn’t reported it yet (on the other hand, she has no verification of the marijuana in that box so I don’t think we’ve come to the point where she can definitively report it without investigating on her own). I still think it wouldn’t have hurt to approach Dana in a more nuanced way. I don’t smoke, but I don’t hate people outright for those choices when they don’t affect me. Sarah started disliking Dana and her group of friends the second it was implied that Dana smoked. That kind of immediate judgment seems a bit…much.

Just my opinion. I know there are those who feel the possibility of smoking marijuana is reason enough to write someone off, so I won’t challenge those personal values. I just disagree with it.

” I would think most people recognize that that’s not a good way to go through life. It limits the relationships you can have with others and it prevents most people from wanting to deal with a thorny exterior to reach the quality-person beneath”

Surely you must understand that this is precisely the goal. Misanthropy. Hatred of people. Neatly coincides with the desire to limit your relationships with others. The desire to ward off people who might otherwise be inclined to get to know you better.

You don’t normally have to give people a sales pitch for how they could benefit from hanging out with you. This is something you do with people that would not otherwise be inclined to socialize in this manner.

Well, I’d have to refer to the end of my comment for that. I simply disagree with the lifestyle of misanthropes and disagree with the notion that there’s nothing at all wrong with living that way. I have to say, I’ve never met or known a successful attorney that was so closed off to people (especially in an occupation where reputation goes a very long way). I feel it’s at least worth feigning civility since she’s otherwise extremely driven toward being successful. She can become a misanthrope later in life, but it strikes me as a serious hindrance as she establishes herself.

But again, those are just my views. I get that she might be doing this all purposefully, but I still disagree with it.

That much at least is certainly true. It’s not conducive to the completion of certain goals of hers. I just don’t see how showing her to be the wrong party in this altercation would lead to her deciding to ditch the generalized ill-will towards her fellow being. Being wrong doesn’t mean she suddenly thinks people are awesome.

Oh, I thought Joyce might question Sarah’s response and recommend easing up if it turns out she were in the wrong. Sarah does cherish Joyce’s friendship, so she might consider a new approach at her recommendation. Not to mention Joyce is one example that there are good people (by Sarah’s definition) out there.

But it could go any way. Honestly, looking at the next strip, I’m afraid they’ll do something horrible and validate Sarah’s misanthropic lifestyle. It’d be realistic, but I’d find it a truly unfortunate circumstance.

That is a bit of a question. Certainly she seems to feel that Joyce is “one of the good ones” or at the very least she enjoys Joyce’s company and finds her more tolerable than most people. Even a misanthrope is generally still human and thus a social creature by nature, so she does still have needs as far as that goes. With the shopping trip she did display at least a little bit of a willingness to work outside her normal behavior and mix with the world a little bit for her. It’s really a question of exactly how far she’d be willing to go in order to maintain this relationship. Or for that matter how much she’s willing to trust after how things ended with the last person to coax her out of her little box of comfort.

Stoners are very rarely depicted as jerks. Dana is most probably just trying to be nice, and will get kicked out because, despite her niceness, the use of marijuana for recreation is illegal in this country.

Hmmm…Was there ever a pre-DoA Raidah? I’m curious.
Y’know since DoA Sarah seems to share the trait of using her Career-First Misanthrope persona as a defense mechanism for being a two-bit sour grape with an inability to deal with her own continuously poor life choices with her previous counterpart, I want to see if there was a previous Raidah and what similarities, if any, to this one she may have had.